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Table 1 Phoneme-viseme mapping of SAPI American English Phoneme Representation. There are 43 phonemes and 22 visemes.

From: Optimization of an Image-Based Talking Head System

Viseme type no.

Phoneme

Viseme type no.

Phoneme

0

Silence

11

ay

1

ae, ax, ah

12

h, hh

2

aa

13

r

3

ao

14

l

4

ey, eh, uh

15

s, z

5

er

16

sh, ch, jh, zh

6

iy, y, ih, ix

17

th, dh

7

w, uw

18

f, v

8

ow

19

d, t, n

9

aw

20

k, g, ng

10

oy

21

p, b, m